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Processing email "bounce backs" Posted by John_Moylan (jfp), 28 July 2004 Hello AllAnyone have any thoughts/pointers on processing email. I have emails which I can get via POP3 or straight from '/var/spool/mail' I'd like to parse each individual email and grep for the status/return code to see if there was a soft bounce (mailserver down?) or a hard bounce (user or domain does not exist) Before I begin the first line of code I'm about to search the CPAN (I *think* Perl would probably be best for this task) and wondered if anyone had done something similar or could point straight to a module. Thanks jfp Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 28 July 2004 We use a mixture of procmail, spamassasin and Perl scripts - the first two to do a lot of the standard stuff, and perl scripts within procmail to look at the "unsure" cases in a bit more depth. In each of these cases, the filtering and any re-routing or /dev/nulling is done before the mail hits the mailbox on the server.Ar you still using the same ISP that we are / do you have the ability to pre-process stuff in that way? Posted by Custard (Custard), 28 July 2004 Sounds like you need this...http://search.cpan.org/~freeside/Mail-DeliveryStatus-BounceParser-1.4/BounceParser.pm I expect you've been to CPAN already by now though? ![]() B Posted by John_Moylan (jfp), 29 July 2004 Two excellent responses, like I expect anything else form this forum.Quote:
This is for work rather than personal so its a differnent host, but I do have root so I'll be searching out a few procmail recipes to help routing the mail Custard, thanks I had searched CPAN, though obviously no well enough, that one passed me by. I did a search on "email" and started from there, now searching on "email bounce" brings your recommendation up first time....doh! Thanks all, I'll have fun playing today jfp This page is a thread posted to the opentalk forum
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